Chantership

[f. CHANTER¹ (sense 3 b) + -SHIP.] The office of a chanter or precentor.

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1529. Act 21 Hen. VIII., c. 13 § 31. No … Treasurership, Chantership, or Prebend in any Cathedral.

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1690. Stillingfl., Charge to Clergy, 51.

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1691. Wood, Ath. Oxon., I. 625. He gave up his Chantorship.

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1809. E. Christian, in Blackstone’s Comm., I. 392. The statute expressly excepts … chanterships, prebends, and sinecure rectories.

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